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Needs someone with historical knowledge, as this version of Slackware is rather old; Good chances there's no support for USB drives plug&play in that kernel. Iirc, 9.1 is from an age where USB was not too common yet; you may have to recompile your kernel to get the USB support you're looking for.

According to the linked post and the rest of that thread it should be possible to use an USB stick with Slackware 9.1. I can not say if your hardware has any problematic components though. Is the computer you are using much newer than the distro? Might be a try worth to load the kernel module "usb-storage" first and see what happens, when you plug in the stick after that.
The posting: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post2462194

Needs someone with historical knowledge, as this version of Slackware is rather old; Good chances there's no support for USB drives plug&play in that kernel. Iirc, 9.1 is from an age where USB was not too common yet; you may have to recompile your kernel to get the USB support you're looking for.

Slack 9.1 was released in 2003, the problematic machine is from 1999. Remember is has two USB connectors mounted on the motherboard, plus the manual explicitly states there is USB support (1.1). I did this: I booted with the slack 9.1 no. 1 cdrom and could read, after the OS loaded the USB modules and saw the USB hub:

Sorry, I can't remember this. I started my Slackware experience with 9.1, but I had no USB stick at that time. Did you try loading the kernel module (usb-storage) manually and see if there is any change in dmesg output?